The hotline was set up on April 20, a week before the historic summit between Moon and Kim on April 27 on the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom where Moon and Kim signed a Panmunjom Declaration in which the two Koreas "confirmed the common goal of realizing, through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula".

Impoverished North Korea has been hit by a series of United Nations and U.S. sanctions in recent years in a bid to rein in its nuclear and missile programmes.

Trump said a troop withdrawal "is not on the table" and said "we haven't been asked to".

"This act can not be construed otherwise than a unsafe attempt to ruin the hard-won atmosphere of dialogue and bring the situation back to square one". The South Korean president said in January that Trump "deserves big credit for bringing about the inter-Korean talks".

He added: "Stayed tuned. Good things are happening, but only time will tell!"

At that speech in MI, the crowd chanted "Nobel, Nobel, Nobel", possibly suggesting the president deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his achievements.

Dr. David Kay, Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies said up to 300 inspectors would be needed in the North, but it would be hard to find enough specialists with the necessary skills and experience.

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